Things I learnt last weekend.

It’s Thursday! Someone remind me if I forget to post this earlier in the week.
Tigers.

Last weekend was pretty fantastic. Critical Mass on Friday, bowl session on Saturday.

- I learnt and executed my switch foot push. It is awesome.
- Side effects of too much switch skating may include (but are not limited to): writing with your left hand by accident, a craving for purple M&Ms and trying to whistle through your nose.
- nothing feels better than kicking someone’s ass at a push race - switch!
- being able to push switch does not equate to being able to bomb hills switch. Or vice versa.
- critical mass is better in the sun.
- people can generally not be bothered to dress up and skate.
- bowl skating is fun.
- doing it on your new downhill board may get you weird looks
- doing everything with one board is the future of our sport!
- all it takes to finally defeat that slalom course is practice!
- Brazilian BBQ is awesome
- everything from brazil is great.
- pushing 25km on Friday, followed by 8 hours of skating on Saturday is a sure cure for insomnia.

8 hours ago  /  2 notes

Popping up everywhere

It’s the end of a rather long, surreal and productive day.
Started by running into one of the new skaters at work. He just happened to be there and walked past me with his unmistakable ginger hair. He’s so new I don’t remember his name so I shouted “hey you, long hair guy”, of course he kept walking. And as would become the theme of the day - I ran after him.
I had just finished a meeting and someone informed me that we had two days holiday because of our Queen’s silver jubilee! I had no idea. Really pleasant surprise. So of course I had to make a bank holiday slide jam. But I would need a poster.
Turns out ginger is a graphic designer! How fortuitous. So he sits down and cooks up a nice poster. Boom. There and then. Stood over his shoulder and dictated for a bit. Fun.
After which I shook his hand and disappeared.
Had a nice long chat about Thane, and as Keith walked away another longboarder tried to get his attention - by staring really hard at the back of his head/apex 37, then as he was turning away, I could only think to shout “hey longboard guy”, he could only walk away. So of course I gave chase. Caught him at the top of the stairs. Not long after ginger shows up again and I introduce them.
And then by the power of our collective longboardiness, we managed to get ANOTHER longboarder to materialise from thin air.
At this point I was ready to pop. Not since the summer of 2010 have so many faces appeared at once. Or actually… That was last week.
This new skater was of the female variety! So I was double keen to engage her in meaningful conversation.
She was walking past our group, but I was confident she would stop. I started with my usual line, she smiled and kept walking.
Oh long Johnson!! I was stunned. Never ever EVER in my 3 years has a longboarder walked away from my presence. I gave my newspaper to ginger, whispered “nobody gets away”, and had to erm… Pursue her down the stairs.
Got her at the bottom and had a delightful conversation about the longboard scene in Köln and the concrete wave shop. Then I told her to find London Longboards on Facebook.
The End.

PS: it’s the 2nd week in a row, I reckon I’ll be bumping into lots and lots of new people this summer.

1 day ago  /  5 notes

Because…

alexpie:

2 hours of longboarding

is still cheaper than

2 hours of therapy.

Ain’t that the truth!

2 days ago  /  32 notes  /  Source: alexpie